Who am I to correct a moral theologian? So I'm offering a differing opinion, not a correction, to this article by Father Ezra Sullivan, op, on the morality of vaccine mandates.
I can see just by googling the morality of the COVID vaccine that there are differing opinions. The USCCB tackles the question of morality in vaccines, in its committees on doctrine and pro-life activities:
At present, there is no available alternative vaccine that has absolutely no connection to abortion. Second, the risk to public health is very serious, as evidenced by the millions of infections worldwide and hundreds of thousands of deaths in the United States of America alone. Third, in many cases the most important effect of vaccination may not be the protection it offers to the person who receives the vaccination, who may be of relatively robust health and unlikely to be seriously affected by the disease. Rather, the more important effect may be the protection it offers to those who are much more likely to be seriously stricken by the disease if they were to contract it through exposure to those infected.
The spiritual advisor to my fraternity, Father Nicanor Austriaco, op, concurs with the USCCB regarding vaccination against COVID. Getting vaccinated is not intrinsically evil. He has been vaccinated. Pope Francis has been vaccinated and has urged the faithful to do likewise.
As a simple, old woman, I'll follow the advice of the Vicar of Christ.
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